[Pidgin] #4986: automatic chat input field resizing should be optional, regression from 2.3

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#4986: automatic chat input field resizing should be optional, regression from 2.3
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  Reporter:  swbrown       |       Owner:                   
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  reopened         
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                   
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.4.0            
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  chat input resize
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by stuporglue):

 Replying to [comment:167 mortan]:
 > Replying to [comment:166 stuporglue]:
 >
 > stuporglue, this statement sums it up:
 >
 > 03/04/2008 10:15:24 AM changed by hbons
 >
 > >   I am sorry, but saying something like "I don't use it like that, so
 I don't care if you're >having problems" is exactly the kind of attitude
 which makes users of your software take to their heels.
 >
 > I'm not saying I don't care about this "problem". Only, Pidgin wasn't
 designed to be a text editor. If you're complaining about you can't code
 in Pidgin, I would tell you to to use something else, and so would anyone
 else. If you realy, really want to code in Pidgin, I suggest writing a
 plugin that has all the features a modern text editor has.

 hbons, I agree with you that Pidgin is an instant message client and not a
 text editor, I think no one here is suggesting that it is. I think what
 people are trying to say is that as an instant message client can be very
 useful for real-time collaboration with other programmers.

 If I'm chatting with a friend who needs help understanding the syntax of
 foreach in PHP (happened last week), why would I make both of us open our
 email clients or visit pastebin or whatever? It's just a short snippet of
 text which is easily sent over IM. Making that text readable is so much
 easier if I can resize my text input box to more than four lnes at a time.

 To all the devs : We appreciate your many hours spent improving and
 developing Pidgin. I think most of us who use it have found it to be the
 best tool for the job. One of the jobs a lot of us to with this tool
 relies on the feature of being able to see our whole message at once, and
 now that feature is gone. Even without that feature most of us will likely
 continue to rely on Pidgin, but we will be less efficient in our jobs.
 Please

 Thanks,
 Michael Moore

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